How I feel about Sprint's new bandwidth cap, what's new with the site, and my thoughts on other things.
As you can see, there’s been some site changes. My new sites are listed above and will all be updated with content soon enough. I’ve changed the template so that all of them can look like a family of sites. They could all use a polishing but I can only do the best I can with the time I’ve got, which is pretty limited. So from now on, anything pertaining to those sites specifically will be posted on those sites. Content I had here related to them has already been removed from here and will be posted there. All that’s left now is to pretty the sites up a bit, get the affiliates that I want, and then I’m good to go. Takes a lot of time running this website alone but I can make it happen.
As far as this site is concerned, I still have to update many of the articles and pic links. I’ll be adding a ‘make money online’ category that will have links to as many affiliate and referral programs that are legit and pay. So if you wanna get paid for doing absolutely nothing in most cases, it’ll be a big help when I get that going. It all depends on if those companies approve me of course so that I can sample them for myself and pass along the info. I’m gonna do a free porn category too. Been wanting to do that for so long now and finally know how I wanna do it. Stay tuned for them both. I’m also thinking about updating the video players to include some sort of advertising so I can get revenue from them. Not the copyrighted vids, just my own personal vids that are mostly in the exclusive video section. I plan on deleting any content, photo and video, that isn’t my own so that I’ll have mostly all exclusive content here. But that’s a ways down the line.
I’m also expanding my content into various online forums. No sense in keeping at all contained on this site alone. My traffic has already increased and that’s all part of the plan. But mainly I just wanna share what’s already here. And yes, I do make a little change from it. So sue me for wanting to get broke off a little.
Two probs I have now are my graphic design experience (I have none) and the new JW flv media player update to version 4. I have Adobe Illustrator CS3 and Acrobat 9 Pro Extended installed now. They both work perfectly except Illustrator
won’t update to version 13.0.2. But that’s a known issue that Adobe has yet to address or fix. I know how to use Acrobat
. Got no clue how to use Illustrator to create the logos to put in the headers for my individual sites. So for now, it’ll just be plain, hyperlinked text like what’s here now. The updated flash player doesn’t support the stop button anymore and thumbnail images prove to be pointless since you can’t stop the video to view them. So I went back to the old version 3.16. It works in every player now except the mp3’s. I don’t have the code for those anymore so I’m stuck with version 4 for those. I’m keeping my eye open for any changes (for the better, not the worse like they just did) to that player though.
I’ve had a prob with Microsoft Word 2007 ever since I first got it. The default font was always Calibri, the font size was always 11 I think, and the style was always ‘normal’ which left some space between the lines. I prefer using Verdana>10>no spacing. I always had to change to those settings every single time I wanted to type something up. And last night was the last straw. I went online for a solution and found it. To change your default font, font size, and font style, go to the ‘home’ menu, click the little arrow in the font sub-menu box, change the settings to your liking, and make sure to hit ‘default’ and then ‘yes.’ That solved the prob for me. I opened and closed Word
several times to test it out and it worked. Next up was the style. The default ‘normal’ setting leaves space between the lines and it was always a pain changing to ‘no spacing’ and keeping it set there.
The solution for me was to go to the ‘home’ menu, then click the little arrow in the paragraph sub-menu box, change the spacing in before and after to zero, line spacing to single (if it’s not like that already), and select where it says “don’t add space…” Then click ‘default’ and ‘yes’ and that should do it. Works great so far. For me, it’s a time saver. The seconds that I used to keep changing to my desired settings added up. I don’t have that prob anymore.
All that praise I gave Tristone Bank, I’ll have to take some of it back. They took a while to get the ball rolling. They never mailed or emailed my login or routing and account info. Didn’t even send my debit card. So when the minimum $100 dollars never appeared in the new account, they closed it. And they wonder why I never transferred the dough. How the hell am I gonna do that when I don’t have any info to do it? So I called them (several times) and they reopened the account, got my login and password, routing info, debit card on the way and all that good stuff. The words I hated hearing most from them was “I don’t know” and “I forgot.” I won’t mention any names but it pissed me off. Even worse was when they said they’d call back but never did. Shit like that just steams the shit out of me! I think it’s supremely unprofessional. But being rude and mean gets nobody nowhere. So I just took it for what it was and waited the process out. I lost out on the interest rate for a month but that’s okay. They said they’d extend it to this month due to the screw-ups.
I’d say the biggest issue I have with that process is all the paperwork. Part of the reason they can offer that rate is not only the debit card transaction fees and the inevitable idiots who don’t meet requirements (and get the lower interest rate) and those that overdraft, but also the fact that they’d use less paper with electronic statements, use up less human resources to process and mail the shit, and save money on postage and time. So why do I gotta keep filling out all this shit and mailing it? It ain’t just Tristone, it’s all these cats offering up reward checking as far as I know. If your ChexSystems info is on point, you don’t have these probs with the big boys.
Even still, if you can do your fucking income tax online and completely paperless (minus w2’s which should have a paperless, electronic delivery option from all employers), the account setup and opening process should be the same for these guys. I love paperless. It’s the way to go. Save a tree! Just like we have digital signatures for our taxes, we should have that for this shit too. Maybe even make it work for and apply to all electronic financial transactions. Everything’s going green and digital right? So what the fuck are they waiting for?
I have to correct myself. I thought the upcoming movie Punisher: War Zone was an in-house Marvel production and would be rated PG-13 like they said they were gonna have for all their movies. It’s actually a Lionsgate shindig and rated R. I won’t pay to see it cuz judging from the trailers, it’s way too stylized and not street and gritty enough. Seeing The Punisher upside down on the chandelier was the dealbreaker. That isn’t, and has never, ever been how he gets down.
It seems that the Sprint hammer has come down and their new mobile broadband card plans and phone-as-modems now have that 5gb bandwidth cap as stated on their site and in their terms & conditions. Yet when I login to their site to view my plans, it still says I have unlimited data for the phone and the data card. So what gives? I haven’t gotten any notices or warnings or anything as of yet and I’ve far exceeded the allotted bandwidth. It makes no sense to me for them to alter the plans of their existing, contracted subscribers. Why give us less and charge us the same? I think that’s bullshit. They should leave those of us that have unlimited on our plan cuz they’re making money from us. That’s what we signed up for. And those of us that exceed, according to them, make up 1% of their data users. That number is infuckingsignificant! Oh, and check the fine print on their Simply Everything plan. Phone-as-modem/tethering ain’t included. So that’s simply not everything, now is it? Who do they think they are, Comcast?
Why risk a mass exodus and loss of monthly income? Plus we can avoid the ETF if we decide to cancel. It just makes no sense to me. When our contracts run out, that’s one thing. Then they can force us to take their 5gb or tell us to fuck off and go find another phone service. New customers coming in already expect 5gb so there’s no surprises with them. It’s just bad business to change the conditions of the contract. The one thing that set them apart from the herd and they fuck it up. Instead of increasing bandwidth and updating their infrastructures, ISP’s are throttling and filtering traffic, and capping bandwidth mainly to thwart file-sharers using p2p and BitTorrent, claiming those users are clogging up all the bandwidth and slowing things down for everyone else. That’s just backwards ass bullshit logic. They’re like the RIAA and MPAA now, living in the fucking stone age. Instead of moving forward and getting with the times (digital distribution), they’re taking steps backwards and we’re the ones who suffer for it: the ones who make them their money. It’s just complete and total bullshit!
As consumers, we’re letting them fuck us up the ass. They’re giving us less for more and taking away what we want and need. Consumerism is all about choice but what do we do when all the choices are the fucking same or you have no choice at all? It fucking sucks. Bandwidth caps are garbage. How the hell are they, or any other company, gonna tell anyone what’s an acceptable amount of usage? Who the fuck are you to tell me what I know I need, bitches? They don’t even offer unlimited for a higher price. They just took the original plan and price and slapped the restriction on it.
I think what Time Warner Cable is doing may set a trend if it proves to be successful. They’re metering bandwidth now or they’re going to. That means that customers with low usage will pay less, those with higher usage will pay more based on how much they use. Basically, it’s like power consumption: you pay for what you use and I agree with that method. I don’t think that’s such a bad idea if the pricing is fair. I’d like to think it’s similar to the plan I have for this blog. If I go over my allotted bandwidth, I pay a small fee for each gigabyte of overage. And it’s a fair price that I don’t mind paying when/if I do go over. And they have different plans to accommodate different bandwidth and storage needs. What I’d like to think TW is doing is offering different speeds and bandwidth allotments for their plans, kinda like what most internet hosting services have been doing since forever. Some people need blazing fast speeds and transfer gb upon gb of data (like me), others don’t. Metering may prove to be a success or failure. But at least it’s something other than putting limitations on customers. That’s just a real bitch move.
